The Capital Research Center, a nonprofit watchdog that scrutinizes the impact of money in politics and politics in philanthropy, released a damning 95-page report on Sept. 17 concerning Democrat megadonor George Soros' Open Society Foundations.
The report, authored by counterterrorism expert Ryan Mauro and first obtained by Blaze Media, indicated that Open Society has poured tens of millions of dollars into U.S.-based organizations that are allegedly engaged in activities the FBI has defined as domestic terrorism, as well as into foreign outfits allegedly linked to designated foreign terrorist organizations.
'This is a clash of the titans of historic proportions — of Trump on the one side and Soros on the other.'
Mauro debuted his findings in conversation with Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on "The Charlie Kirk Show" exactly one week after Kirk was assassinated. Evidently, the Trump administration was listening.
In the wake of yet another leftist attack — this time a fatal shooting on Wednesday at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Center in Dallas, Texas — the Department of Justice signaled that Soros' grant-making foundation would soon be visited by consequence.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's office has issued a directive to U.S. attorney's offices in California, Maryland, and New York and the cities of Chicago, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., instructing federal prosecutors to prepare to investigate Soros' shady group, reported the New York Times.
The directive, a copy of which was viewed by the Times and reportedly issued by Associate Deputy Attorney General Aakash Singh, identifies various charges with which attorneys can hammer Open Society Foundations.
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Among the possible charges listed are racketeering, wire fraud, material support for terrorism, and arson, reported the Times.
Singh apparently referred to Mauro's report and asked federal prosecutors to figure out whether the allegations therein were enough to launch probes into Open Society.
The Capital Research Center's report indicates that Open Society has awarded:
Blaze News previously noted that among the seven groups identified in the report that are funded by Open Society and allegedly assist in domestic terrorism are:
Open Society Foundations, which is now chaired by Soros' son Alexander Soros, said in a statement, "The Open Society Foundations unequivocally condemn terrorism and do not fund terrorism. Our activities are peaceful and lawful, and our grantees are expected to abide by human rights principles and comply with the law."
The radical group added, "These accusations are politically motivated attacks on civil society, meant to silence speech the administration disagrees with and undermine the First Amendment right to free speech. When power is abused to take away the rights of some people, it puts the rights of all people at risk."
Mauro told Blaze News, "This is a clash of the titans of historic proportions — of Trump on the one side and Soros on the other."
"I have prepared a list with a range of relatively easy options for the Trump administration to exercise beyond what is mentioned in the New York Times report," continued Mauro. "This is a fight that can be won relatively easily if it is done the right way."
While he anticipates victory in the event that "the Trump administration is not scared away by the flak that they're going to get," Mauro suspects that in the short term, leftist violence might increase "because there will be panic, and they will frame this as the civil war that they and their counterparts on the so-called far right have wanted. ... They're going to say, 'This is the moment for our insurgency to officially launch and to officially become visible.'"
As for Open Society Foundations' response to the news of possible DOJ action, Mauro said, "They don't deal with the substance at all. They don't deal with a single allegation. They don't deal with a single transaction that's based on their own records."
DOJ spokesman Chad Gilmartin told the Times, "This DOJ, along with our hardworking and dedicated U.S. attorneys, will always prioritize public safety and investigate organizations that conspire to commit acts of violence or other federal violations of law."
This initiative comes on the heels of President Donald Trump's designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization and the following promise from White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller: "We are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people."
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Press secretary Karoline Leavitt shut down allegations that border czar Tom Homan had accepted a cash bribe from FBI agents under the Biden administration.
Reports from legacy media surfaced over the weekend that the FBI last year recorded Homan taking $50,000 from undercover agents who were posing as business executives. In exchange for the cash, Homan allegedly agreed to help them obtain government contracts once he secured a role with the second Trump administration.
'You had FBI agents going undercover to try and entrap one of the president's top allies and supporters, someone who they knew very well would be taking a government position months later.'
Homan became a target of the Biden administration's FBI after "a subject in a separate investigation" claimed that Homan was "soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the presidential election," MSNBC reported, citing an internal Justice Department summary.
MSNBC accused President Donald Trump of delaying the previous administration's FBI and Justice Department in the case, ultimately leading to its shutdown.
FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told the news outlet, "This matter originated under the previous administration and was subjected to a full review by FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors. They found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing. The Department's resources must remain focused on real threats to the American people, not baseless investigations. As a result, the investigation has been closed."
White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson called the investigation "blatantly political," noting that it found "no evidence of illegal activity."
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During a White House press briefing on Monday, a reporter asked Leavitt about the probe, including whether Homan would be expected to return the $50,000 he allegedly took from the FBI agents.
"Mr. Homan never took the $50,000 that you're referring to. So you should get your facts straight, number one," Leavitt stated. "Number two, this was another example of the weaponization of the Biden Department of Justice against one of President Trump's strongest and most vocal supporters in the midst of a presidential campaign."
"You had FBI agents going undercover to try and entrap one of the president's top allies and supporters, someone who they knew very well would be taking a government position months later," she said.
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Leavitt noted that Patel's FBI also looked into the case.
"They found zero evidence of illegal activity or criminal wrongdoing. And the White House and the president stand by Tom Homan 100% because he did absolutely nothing wrong, and he is a brave public servant who has done a phenomenal job in helping the president shut down the border," Leavitt added.
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President Trump has rightly demanded accountability from Attorney General Pam Bondi for her “safety dance” tenure at the Department of Justice. That same spirit of accountability, however, must also apply to the president himself — and one of his judicial nominees simply will not do.
Rebecca Taibleson, nominated for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, donated to ActBlue, Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, and Kamala Harris’ 2015 Senate run. She is 42 years old. If confirmed, she could shape precedent against conservatives for decades. So why is he nominating her?
If we will not get serious now, with the blood of a martyr fresh on the ground, then we never will.
This pick occurred before Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In its aftermath, it looks even worse in the shadow of what appears to be more transgender-inspired mayhem. The American Family Association notes that Taibleson has supported groups that promote transgender ideology and was married by a rabbi known for the same.
At a time when transgender-inspired violence has spilled blood in the streets, why reward someone who aligns with its cultural enablers?
The problem runs deeper than one nomination. Taibleson’s record reflects a broader crisis: a culture that has embraced a godless void and passed it to the next generation. Charlie Kirk offered a different path: “Get married, have children, build a legacy, pass down your values, pursue the eternal, seek true joy.” Taibleson’s worldview instead represents the seedbed that celebrates the demonic and mocks the eternal.
We cannot keep lying to ourselves as conservatives, believing we can compromise on fundamental truths and still win on technical ground like law or medicine. COVID and the transgender movement exposed what happens when “experts” cut themselves off from God. They justify usurpations of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the name of juvenile feelings. Taibleson’s credentials suggest she would stand with them.
My thoughts for Charlie’s widow and children do not permit me to soften the point. Decades of half-measures and triangulation have only led to more disorder, more ruin. The slippery slope of compromise is undefeated — and at the bottom lies a pool of blood.
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Look around. In the wake of Kirk’s assassination, have you once thought that the solution to America’s collapse rests with judges like Taibleson? The answer is obvious. Universities, media, and even parts of the legal profession are filled with elites who mock God and demand compliance. They do not offer solutions. They multiply the problem.
C.S. Lewis reminded us that when you realize you are far off course, the responsible action is to turn back and begin again in the right direction. “The man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” Taibleson does not mark the right direction. She is the kind of figure who burns the map with a smile.
No more rewards for those who despise the truth. If we will not get serious now, with the blood of a martyr fresh on the ground, then we never will.
President Donald Trump signaled on Monday that Antifa militants might soon find themselves designated as domestic terrorists.
When asked about such a designation in the wake of his friend Charlie Kirk's assassination by a coward whose ammunition was reportedly engraved with Antifa slogans, the president said, "It's something I would do, yeah."
"I would do that 100% — and others also, by the way," continued Trump. "But Antifa is terrible."
Trump indicated that Attorney General Pam Bondi would likely need to get the ball rolling on the designation and noted that they have been discussing possibly bringing racketeering charges against liberal groups that back similar stripes of leftist extremists.
Blaze News has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller made clear in his Monday conversation with Vice President JD Vance on "The Charlie Kirk Show" that "we are going to channel all of the anger that we have over the organized campaign that led to this assassination to uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks."
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"We are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people," added Miller.
'You fight them with guns so you don’t have to fight them with tanks.'
While Democrats have downplayed Antifa violence and in some cases even denied the group's existence, the president has long understood the real threat posed by the largely decentralized yet deadly revolutionary anarcho-communist group.
After all, they haven't exactly hidden themselves or their intentions.
A Baltimore Antifa militant provided a good insight into the radicals' thinking when he told historian Mark Bray, the author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," that when it comes to fighting so-called fascists, which appears to be a catch-all term for individuals standing in communists' way, "You fight them by writing letters and making phone calls so you don’t have to fight them with fists. You fight them with fists so you don’t have to fight them with knives. You fight them with knives so you don’t have to fight them with guns. You fight them with guns so you don’t have to fight them with tanks."
Evidently, Antifa militants have decided to skip letters and phone calls.
Amid the bloody 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, which inflicted billions of dollars in damage, left thousands of police injured, and claimed the lives of at least 25 Americans, Trump stated, "The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization."
'Now you could argue, and I think it would legitimate, for a single terrorism designation against Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization.'
Then-Attorney General Bill Barr noted, "The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly."
While the State Department has been granted the authority under the law to designate foreign groups as terrorist organizations, America does not similarly have an overarching domestic terrorism statute. As a result, the government tends to investigate and prosecute acts of domestic terrorism on an individual basis.
Various Republican lawmakers have unsuccessfully attempted in recent years to create an official domestic terrorism organization list — and to put Antifa on it.
Kyle Shideler, a senior analyst at the Center for Security Policy, told "Blaze News: The Mandate" on Monday that the Trump administration should instead "induct a number of designations against Antifa-linked groups, primarily in Europe but across the world."
"Now you could argue, and I think it would be legitimate, for a single terrorism designation against Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization," continued Shideler. "If you try to designate Antifa just as a single movement, what I suspect you'll find is that the bureaucrats will say, 'We don't know what that is. That's not a thing that exists.'"
Shideler suggested an optimal approach would be to find a number of foreign Antifa groups, tie them back to an international Antifa network such as the the International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund, "then you go after U.S.-based groups that are also tied to that international network, and so you build a series of designations that way."
The Trump White House appears keen on making sure that Antifa militants are held accountable this time around.
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